A Doctor's analysis of Freddy Grey's injuries- shocker, the cops are lying.

[cali]

Is it possible that Freddie Gray could have severed his own spine and crushed his own voicebox?

From a medical standpoint, it is unlikely that the 25-year-old Baltimore man injured himself in the back of that van. The severity of his injuries seem too grave for him to have done that to himself simply by thrashing around or banging his head on something.

t is more likely that there was some type of direct blow to either the front or back of his neck, or somewhere along the spinal cord along his back.

How does a spinal cord injury happen? A spinal cord injury is "damage to the spinal cord that results in a loss of function such as mobility or feeling." This type of injury is most often caused by a traumatic blow of the kind that would be sustained in a car accident, severe fall or an act of violence.

There must be a sudden, traumatic blow to the spine that fractures, dislocates, crushes or compresses one or more of the vertebrae, or when a gun shot or knife penetrates the spinal cord. After a spinal cord injury, bleeding, inflammation and swelling occurs, and fluid builds up in and around the spinal cord.

More:

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/doctor-freddie-gray-not-sever-spine-article-1.2205179

[Mnemosyne]

1. K&R nt

[woodsprite]

2. Like maybe an officer's bike ran over him and up onto his head/neck?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026597257

[Pooka Fey]

3. K&R

[malthaussen]

4. The closing credits of "Cry Freedom" run through my mind.

The staircases in those old South African prisons were especially unlucky.

-- Mal

[hopemountain]

5. the bangings the other prisoner heard

were either calls for attention, the result of a seizure, or a beating.rather than call for professional medical help/emergency ambulance, the pigs loaded him into the back of the police van as though they had just scraped a dog off the roadway.

[libdem4life]

6. Apt description.

[truebluegreen]

7. I listened to an interview with the witness

and although he wasn't terribly clear in expressing it, it sounded like he was asserting that the banging he heard was minor (convulsions? I'd guess) and he also said that Freddie was "dead" already (not breathing?) when they got to the station.